Impagination – Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication: Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Impagination – Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication

Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West

Edited by: Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang , Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698756

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This volume is a comparative study of the practice of impagination across different ages and civilizations. By impagination we mean the act of placing and arranging spatially textual and other information onto a material bearer that could be made of a variety of materials (papyrus, bamboo slips, palm leaf, parchment, paper, and the computer screen). This volume investigates three levels of impagination: what is the page or other unit of the material bearer, what is written or printed on it, and how is writing or print placed on it. It also examines the interrelations of two or all three of these levels. Collectively it examines the material and materiality of the page, the variety of imprints, cultural and historical conventions for impagination, interlinguistic encounters, the control of editors, scribes, publishers and readers over the page, inheritance, borrowing and innovation, economics, aesthetics and socialities of imprints and impagination, and the relationship of impagination to philology. This volume supplements studies on mise en page and layout – an important subject of codicology – first by including non-codex writings, second by taking a closer look at the page or other unit than at the codex (or book), and third by its aspiration to adopt a globally comparative approach. This volume brings together for comparison vast geographical realms of learning, including Europe, China, Tibet, Korea, Japan and the Near Eastern and European communities in which the Hebrew Bible was transmitted. This comparison is significant, for Europe, China, and India all developed great traditions of learning which came into intensive contact. The contributions to this volume are firmly rooted in local cultures and together address global, comparative themes that are significant for multiple disciplines, such as intellectual and cultural history of knowledge (both humanistic and scientific), global history, literary and media studies, aesthetics, and studies of material culture, among other fields.

Author / Editor information

K. Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; G.W. Most, Scuola Norm. Superiore, Pisa, Italy/Univ. Chicago, USA; A. Grafton, Princeton Univ., USA

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Slips, Scrolls, and Leaves: Before the Codex
Chapter 1. Text and Paratext in the Greek Classical Tradition Glenn W. Most Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2. Tabernacles of Text: A Brief Visual History of the Hebrew Bible Theodor Dunkelgrün Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 3. Impagination, Reading, and Interpretation in Early Chinese Texts Michael Puett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 4. Sūtra Text in Pecha Format: Page Layout of the Tibetan Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Shenyu Lin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 5. Between the Lines and in the Margins: Linguistic Change and Impagination Practices in South Asia Tyler Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
II The Printed World
Chapter 6. The Margin as Canvas: A Forgotten Function of the Early Printed Page Anthony Grafton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Chapter 7. Page Layout and the Complex Semiotic System of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Chosŏn’s Samganghaengsildo Keysook Choe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Chapter 8. The Transformation of the Typical Page in the Handpress Era in the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1800 Goran Proot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Chapter 9. Writer’s Block or Printer’s Block: The Book and Its Openings in Early Modern China Bruce Rusk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Chapter 10. Placing Texts on Chinese Pages: From Bamboo Slips to Printed Paper Ren-Yuan Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Chapter 11. Recovering Translation Lost: Symbiosis and Ambilingual Design in Chinese/Manchu Language Reference Manuals of the Qing Dynasty Loretta E. Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Chapter 12. Japanophone Glosses (kunten) in Printed and Digitized Manuscripts Kimiko Kono Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
III Beyond the Book
Chapter 13. Beyond the Physical Page: Latest Practice of Scientific Publication Ku-ming Kevin Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Book historians, codicologists, global historians, philologists
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 417
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 58
- Coloured Illustrations: 25
- Tables: 14
Keywords: Mise en page; codicology; materiality; the page

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Published: January 18, 2021
ISBN: 9783110698756

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Published: January 18, 2021
ISBN: 9783110698466